Giving the land to AIDEA at no charge—a massive state subsidy—would make a proposed “multi-use industrial and energy development district” more likely to succeed, according to the Dunleavy analysis.

The August primary election ballot features a campaign finance initiative that will be approved overwhelmingly, but only if Alaskans are informed about it.

But there is no big ad campaign behind it, so it will be up to individuals and organizations to spread the word about Ballot Measure No. 1.

Roger Marks, a petroleum economist who worked for the Department of Revenue for 25 years, has an excellent column in the Anchorage Daily News about the “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign.

Alaska entered the union in 1959 with a land grant that exceeded the size of California, more than 100 million acres.

But Republican gubernatorial candidate Shelley Hughes, 68, is claiming that Alaska got shafted under the deal negotiated over many years by Alaskans and members of congress who led the charge to create the state.

She claims that the only thing to do now is get the Trump administration to increase the land grant approved in 1958 by about 5 percent.

This is one of the issues on which she is clueless.

The Alaska Public Offices Commission voted Thursday to not conduct an immediate investigation of Aurora Action Network to decide if the cash cow is headquartered in Bob Griffin’s house in Anchorage or in Wisconsin.

The commission said it would deal with the matter, which relates to a ballot measure scheduled for the November election, at its August 26 meeting.

A big political donor whose name is prominently displayed on every political ad promoting the campaign to end open primaries and ban ranked choice voting has been charge in connection with a $619,000 Medicaid fraud case.

Here is the court complaint against Kyle Bates, 48, and others.

The Trump administration and the Dunleavy administration are disgracefully using the power of the federal and state governments to silence one of the Dan Sullivans under the ruse of protecting “civil rights,” while giving a direct campaign boost to the other Dan Sullivan.

The federal and state investigations will force the Petersburg Sullivan to spend lots of time and money answering federal and state lawyers who have been called in to investigate the imaginary crimes ginned up by the incumbent senator and his political allies in Alaska and Washington, D.C.

President Trump lied that Mackenzie Spurlock of Wasilla was prosecuted and sent to prison by the Biden administration for “fixing” his car.

It’s possible that Trump knew he was lying, but it’s more likely that someone told him that Biden persecuted Spurlock for car repairs and that was enough for Trump to ask where he should sign the pardon.

Sen. Dan Sullivan has clouded the issue by presenting an oversimplified version of events, portraying Spurlock as a patriotic hero for violating the Clean Air Act.

Spurlock hired a lobbyist to seek a pardon and Sullivan assisted by telling Trump that Spurlock was a victim of Biden’s “weaponized” Department of Justice and EPA.

Carol Beecher, the director of the Division of Elections, has propagated the claim that Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg “initially” asked the Division of Elections to list his name as Dan S. Sullivan.

It’s not true.

Beecher has yet to correct the record, which has been amplified by the Republican establishment, deceptive claims in court and inadequate news reporting.